Chase through Fairfield ends in crash, arrest

The California Highway Patrol arrested a Folsom man Monday morning who officials say led Solano officers on a high-speed freeway chase through Fairfield that ended in a crash near Gold Hill Road.

Anthony Stott, 24, was taken into custody by officers after the pickup he was driving flipped over at the conclusion of a nearly 12-mile pursuit, said CHP Sgt. Jason Hekker.

Around 6:10 a.m., the CHP received a report of a reckless driver traveling west on Interstate 80, swerving in all lanes, Hekker said. A CHP motorcycle officer spotted the vehicle, a blue 1985 Toyota pickup, traveling at 80 to 85 mph near Air Base Parkway. The officer tried to stop the driver, later identified as Stott, as he approached Abernathy Road. Stott allegedly refused to pull over and, instead, transitioned onto southbound Interstate 680.

Stott allegedly continued passing other vehicles in a reckless manner before trying to exit the freeway at Gold Hill Road, where he lost control and the pickup spun out on the offramp, Hekker said. The driver managed to regain control of the pickup, got back on the freeway and continued south.

He exited the freeway again at Marshview Road, but was unable to negotiate a turn at the top of the ramp and hit a barbed-wire fence, causing the pickup to flip before coming to a rest on its wheels, Hekker said.

Officers are investigating the possibility that the pickup was an "unreported stolen vehicle," Hekker said, since Stott told officers he was on the way to visit family in Vallejo and did not know to whom the truck belonged.

Stott was taken into custody and booked into Solano County Jail on suspicion of driving without a license and felony reckless evading, Hekker said.